Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations

[Pierre Neidhardt]

> I'm not sure what you mean by "Guix checkouts".  Do you mean a Git
> checkout of Guix's Git repository?  If so, why would deleting it help?

Well, I meant what I wrote in the example below

> guix package --profile=~s --delete-generations=1m
> ...
> (string-append (config-directory #:ensure? #f) "/current")

It deletes the old ~/.config/guix/ profiles.  If I'm not wrong, each of those
profiles consume a couple of 100MBs.

So if "checkout" is confusing, what about "Guix copy" instead?

See "(guix) Invoking guix pull" in the manual for terminology.

> "You might also want to delete old non-default profiles pointed to by
> the symlinks in /var/guix/gcroots/auto (broken symlinks in this
> directory will be automatically removed)."

I like it better!  I'll use your suggestion.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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